How should AI systems behave, and who should decide?
OpenAI is opening the black box. Here's who gets to decide how ChatGPT behaves.

Why it matters
OpenAI is moving toward public input and user customization on AI system behavior—a governance shift that signals how AI labs will balance safety, user autonomy, and stakeholder input as models become mainstream.
The key facts
8 to knowOpenAI committing to increased user customization of AI behavior
Plans for greater public input into AI decision-making
Focus on transparency around ChatGPT behavior shaping
Published Feb 16, 2023—early moment in ChatGPT governance conversation
OpenAI announcing plans for increased user customization of AI behavior
Commitment to greater public input into AI decision-making processes
Focus on clarifying how ChatGPT's values and outputs are shaped
Published Feb 16, 2023 — early in ChatGPT public discourse
Go to the source
OpenAI Blogopenai.com
Publisher excerpt: We’re clarifying how ChatGPT’s behavior is shaped and our plans for improving that behavior, allowing more user customization, and getting more public input into our decision-making in these areas.
